Help! Potency Sux!

Alexander Supertramp

Alexander Supertramp

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So are you just relying on the sulphur in your Epsoms salt spritz. or are you also amending with elemental sulphur? And why on the subject would you please share you Epsoms salts concentrate recipe? Sorry Op, not trying to thread jack, just trying to help everyone with potency.
 
RM3

RM3

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Alexander Supertramp said:
So are you just relying on the sulphur in your Epsoms salt spritz. or are you also amending with elemental sulphur? And why on the subject would you please share you Epsoms salts concentrate recipe? Sorry Op, not trying to thread jack, just trying to help everyone with potency.
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I was recently asked how I feed so I'll just copy that here ,,,,

I can tell you go slow, go light LOL I have tweaked it over the last 3 grows and feel I have it mostly dialed in and I am still playin with it in minor baby steps. When I first started I top dressed a plant with a tablespoon of Gypsum and let the watering drizzle it into the medium. Burnt the livin crap outta her, had to do a double flush to get her back. With that I realized my water had plenty of Cal so my adding of gypsum became 3 to 5 of the little pellets once a week NOTE: every thing I mix is to a gallon of water So if your water is good go light on the Calcium Sulfate !

With the 2 Jacks ferts I do 1/2 teaspoon of Citrus mixed with 1/4 teaspoon of Aquagold and an 1/8 teaspoon Epsom for veg I reverse this in the first 4 weeks of flower doing 1/2 teaspoon of Aquagold with 1/4 teaspoon of Citrus and the 1/8 th of Epsom

In week 5 I do 1/4 teaspoon of Aquagold mixed with 1/4 teaspoon of Potassium Sulfate and the 1/8th of Epsom

In week 6 I do 1/4 teaspoon of Potassium Sulfate and 1/4 teaspoon of Epsom

After this and to the end I rotate the 3 I just explained for flower and depending on how they look (green wise) I might give em a dose of the veg proportions once, in the latter weeks.

I do not feed every time I water, there are times they just get water but I make sure they get fed at least twice a week and I don't follow any kind of schedule I base what they get on how they look and only deviate from the mixes I have explained if there is a problem. As example I just had one show a mag def and hit her with 1/4 teaspoon of Epsom to a quart of water, she is now startin to come out of it (I have noticed some strains like more Mag)

Also if a strain shows they don't like the menu being fed to all, I do adjust it just for her but this is rare in most grows so far

I should also note that I have never owned a PPM or EC meter so to those numbers I have no clue, I have always based what I do on plant response. After watchin em for as long as I have I have gotten pretty good at it.
 
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ralp817

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this is my first post here. did you say 350ppm? how? i use RO water and add 200ppm in calmag alone. i go up to 1300 to 1400ppms by 6th week before flushing for 3 weeks. i add silica, terpenators and i always get the most potent tasty nugs. i cant imagine what 350ppms looks like
 
hellmutt bones

hellmutt bones

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ralp817 said:
this is my first post here. did you say 350ppm? how? i use RO water and add 200ppm in calmag alone. i go up to 1300 to 1400ppms by 6th week before flushing for 3 weeks. i add silica, terpenators and i always get the most potent tasty nugs. i cant imagine what 350ppms looks like
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Lets see what u got cus 1400 is preaty high for most strains.
 
Lighterfighter

Lighterfighter

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in the past someone i know used to push 1300 thinking pushing them to the max is the best. Now he believe happy medium, happy roots, happy family tree. He Floods a couple times for a day for o2, and pushed 1k ppm or more on crit kus gth and skywaker kusg and a auto. he said now 800 is max. I heard ghost train hz can handle a larger amount of nutes but turns greeeeeen. Green curls under due to n toxicity, or overwatering, but in the pics- N toxicity. the dark green and curling under should both just be indicators of variables, who cares who is right. learn to read the need, then feed. he said newer growth under lower mix isnt as dark and at a quicker pace. mix potency has a lot to do with medium, watering cycles, and nute compunds in all fairness. each compound affects the plants ability to uptake other compounds in one direction or another, just like ph affects its uptake ability. An excess, or buildup, of one salt usually causes the disruption of another. just because it works doesn't make it the best. so vary the solution up and down and take notes for line of best fit lol. and lastly., dont read the plants under the hps. get a flashlight or 6500k light to help accurately understand what it is saying. not varying the scale by varying the color scale of a 3500k light.
ps these are all salts, does feeding me just salt and now ater allow me to live, no. does feeding me just water no salt work, no. SO I need happy medium. should take you 2 or 3 times tops to know the mins and maxes, if not you have not done it right lol.

water/nutes, medium, air flow, temp and light. it will grow with highly varying amounts of any, but will blossom in the right mix of all. fuck pests.
 
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